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The primary thing I'd like to do to Zyra is to make her MORE about plants, and less burst mage. I don't entirely know how this will effect which lane, but I do understand the sentiment to the bottom lane vs mid lane approach. This has been why we've been conservative so far (the missile speed change was just something we should have released with).

I can put more complete thoughts on this later, but that's likely the direction we'd look at outside of numbers tweaks.

EDIT: I can't imagine this is the post that's downvoted. You guys really don't want her to be about plants? I'm honestly surprised - is this a "change is bad", or "Zyra is just a mage to me"?

Morello, I like the idea that the plants are the main focus in her kit, but that's sort of making her like a more useful heimerdinger. He's turret-focused, and he has little burst, and zyra should be able to burst AND have plants do consistent damage too.

EDIT: I can't imagine this is the post that's downvoted. You guys really don't want her to be about plants? I'm honestly surprised - is this a "change is bad", or "Zyra is just a mage to me"?

Quick question i was asking myself and am asking you now: Do you play Zyra?
She already is all about plants.
You use them to zone, to farm, to slow and to chase (q activated long-range).
Her burst is not the strongest in the game and is only effective if you hit the combo correctly which isn't too easy with the slow e speed and the 2 second ult knock-up.
I would really like to know where the zeal to changing her stems from.
Is she really in such a bad place at the moment, especially compared to other champions?
And no, change is not bad. But is it needed in this case?

She is already about plants, but if you make her completely about that and change her to sustained DPS, it will not work, other champions like cass/karthus and ryze can be sustained DPS because they can constantly spam, she can't, and her plants are weak pets that can't be really used for sustained DPS..

I will be glad if you just leave her alone, she's perfectly fine as she is, just buff other supports or something so we see other supports being used I guess.

There aren't even that many people that QQ about her, and it's the same few people that do.

There's a very key problem with lowering her base and upping her ratios though.

It could seriously hurt her early game, especially those extremely crucial pre-6 levels against champions like Fizz and Kassadin.

Not just that, depending on how much you up her ratios, it'll still be an overall nerf to Zyra's who prefer to build Liandries+Rylai's. If it isn't a nerf to them at that point, it could still make it difficult for Zyra's in situations where she needs to build something like a Chalice or Catalyst over AP early game. Overall base-lowering could hurt a Zyra's early game, and not just against assassins or anyone who can flash+burst at level 6.

Because of this, I'm more in favour of a kit change over switching numbers around.